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Hi paulmichel21. You can use an Additional App to run an XPadder profile before your game, and a 2nd one to stop XPadder after you quit your game. You don't need to use a batch file or a script to do this. You have to create 2 Additional Apps for each game. Application Name: Type what you want in here, it's only a description. Application Path: Set this to point to your XPadder.exe file. Application Command-Line Parameters: For the Additional App to start XPadder set this to the path to your XPadder Profile for the game. The /M switch just minimises XPadder to the tray. There's no need to include the Profile extension,; XPadder will add it automatically. By the way, XPadder is rumoured to not like spaces in the path to a Profile. If you have spaces, then you may need to enclose the path and profile name in double quotes. If you have to use double quotes, then leave the /M bit outside of them. For the Additional App to close XPadder set this to /C See images below for an example. Sorry I can't be of help with nomousy, but I don't use this.

Hi In virtute Dei. It's great to see someone taking on this mammoth task for all the new Platforms in the database. When the Platforms metadata was first done way back in mid 2015, we entered it in LaunchBox using the Manage Platforms and then eMailed the XML file to Jason and the metadata was available in his next beta. I don't know if Jason still uses this method, as this was before the games database came along and machine images were being submitted directly to the forums. But when the games database did arrive Jason had it all in there. Not too sure how many platforms were done back then. Quite a few members were active at it; I think I did around 70.

Hi Jason. The issue with the out of order Platforms when switching from Platform Categories back to Platforms appears to be linked to the games counts feature in the left sidebar. The issue appears when game counts are enabled, but the Platforms list in correct alphabetical order when this feature is turned off.

Hi Jason. I've just tried out the new beta (7.6) and the new Platform Categories view works fine after I added platforms that were not initially recognised. However, when I switch from Platform Categories back to Platforms view then all the platforms are no longer in alphabetical order in the left sidebar.

Hi Charco. See here for help with XPadder http://xpadder.com/forum4/viewforum.php?f=7

I don't know how to do links. If you use the search box to search for vivanonno it will find it.

Hi sarge. Try this. To remove the Platform Banner (the Genesis image), in BigBox select Options, Views, and set the Platform List View to Platforms Wheel with Video, Details and Thumbs. And to hide the Details text, now go to Options, Platform Details, and clear all the check boxes.

Hi knightCrawler In the forums go to Off Topic, Emulation and browse to the topic Vivanonno emulator need help.

Hi knightCrawler. Regarding the issues with running MSX2 in MESS. MESS151 supports the generic msx, msx2 and msx2p systems. However, from about MESS155 onward and of course all the MAME builds with MESS integrated, this support has been dropped. If you checkout the pastebin link posted above by lordmonkus for MESS174 you'll see that the msx, msx2 and msx2p systems are absent. Apparently, with the MAME/MESS devs constantly looking for accuracy, this support of what is a specification or architecture used by many machines was abandoned in favour of support for the actual machines themselves. So to emulate MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+ using a build of MESS later than 154 or MAME with MESS integrated you need to emulate a real MSX machine. The problem is that there are so many of them. They were made by the likes of Sony, Yamaha, Toshiba, Canon, Mitsubishi, Panasonic and so on. Which one is best - who knows. Which one has the best game compatibility - again who knows. MESS offers the following best match list. Unknown system 'msx2' "msx2" approximately matches the following supported machines (best match first): ax350 AX-350 (MSX2) ax370 AX-370 (MSX2) canonv25 V-25 (MSX2) canonv30 V-30 (MSX2) canonv30f V-30F (MSX2) cpc300 IQ-2000 CPC-300 (Korea) (MSX2) cpc300e IQ-2000 CPC-300E (Korea) (MSX2) cpc330k CPC-330K KOBO (Korea) (MSX2) cpc400 X-II CPC-400 (Korea) (MSX2) cpc400s X-II CPC-400S (Korea) (MSX2) expert20 Expert 2.0 (Brazil) (MSX2) expert3i Expert 3 IDE (MSX2+) expert3t Expert 3 Turbo (MSX2+) expertac Expert AC88+ (MSX2+) expertdx Expert DDX+ (MSX2+) fpc900 FPC-900 (MSX2) Of course there are many more MSX/MSX2/MSX2+ machines available. Some will have support for cartridge, cassette and floppy, while others will not have floppy support. I tried out the Canon V-30 (MSX2) with MAME179 and it worked the same as the old generic msx2 using MESS151. Out of 9 MSX2 games I tested, 8 ran and 1 failed (Aleste). This game apparently needs some sort of music file to be loaded into the cart2 slot. By the way, bluesmx runs Aleste just fine. As an example, to use the Canon V-30 (MSX2) machine with MAME179, the system is canonv30 and the bios needed is canonv30.zip. In MAME's Associated Platforms tab for your MSX2 platform, the basic command line parameters are canonv30 -cart1 or canonv30 -flop1 or canonv30 -cass depending on the format of your games.

You can do this by using the Additional Apps feature in LaunchBox's game edit window. Set up one Additional App to run your profile before the game, and a second one to close your profiler after the game is exited. I don't use Joy2Key myself, I use XPadder, but here are my Additional Apps just to show an example.

Rather than doing a roll back, you might like to post the issues you're having with 6.10+ and see if any members can be of help. If your issues with 6.10 and later are serious enough for you to want to roll back, then look for the Topic "Previous version or downgrade?" in the Troubleshooting subforum of the LaunchBox forum. You'll find a dropbox link to 6.9 by Kirsten Marie. Bear in mind that going back to 6.9 will make LaunchBox revert to using the old, now obsolete single XML file as opposed to the new split structure introduced with 6.10. In short, all changes you've made since you originally updated from 6.9 will be effectively lost. If you do decide to roll back, do make a backup of your LaunchBox folder first. It may take time but it's worth having.

Hi bobrpggamer. Go to Tools, Options, Background Priorities and make sure that all boxes are cleared.

Hi voyagerxp. If you go to the Troubleshooting subforum in the LaunchBox forum and look for the Topic Previous Version or Downgrade? you will find a dropbox link to download the 6.9 setup file.

If you have decided on Demul then forget the Mame files and get Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned (Rev. B) (GDS-0036F) for Demul. This comes as vf4tuned.zip. It's about 200MB and has just one file inside called vf4tuned.bin

The Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned game needs The Game Set vf4tuned.zip The Bios Set naomi2.zip Device Set 1 mie.zip Device Set 2 jvs13551.zip The CHD gds-0036f.chd However, I doubt this game will work in Mame. It's been a while since I played around with the Virtua Fighter games, but I remember that the only ones that worked in Mame were the original Virtua Fighter and Virtua Fighter Kids. And these had issues in Mame. Your best bet might be something like Demul, nullDC or Makaron.

Hi ckp. The Guilty Gears games are Sega Naomi GD-ROM games. I haven't tried any of this but see the attached image, in particular the bit about run specified system image <CD/GD media systems only>.

Hi master333. The CPS2 games issue has nothing to do with the QSound Device. The 0.178 version of MAME requires each CPS2 game romset to have a KEY file named after the rom: 1944.key, avsp.key and so on. Your CPS2 game romsets need to be updated to MAME 0.178 compatible versions which contain these new KEY files. I haven't had any issues with CPS1 games on updating to Mame 0.178.

Hi Codeman. You cannot edit Images and Details for Platforms in the LaunchBox Games DB. This may be possible in the future, as quite a lot of Platforms have no image or description.

Hi kerszr. I've used Raine to play Neo Geo CD games. To get the game to automatically open when run from LaunchBox, you need to remove the -g parameter and just use the optional -nogui one.

Hi Rick. The issue may be with the MaxPlayers Field entry. I have 2 games stuck in moderation, one with 82 Approvals and 1 Rejection, and the other with 112 Approvals and 1 Rejection, and my issue appears to be with my entries in the MaxPlayers Field. I understand that Jason will be working on the Database soon and hopefully these issues will be cleared up then.

If you want to be sure, then from within LaunchBox (not BigBox) select Help About Premium, and you will see if you have a forever licence or not.

Hi @ckp. Maybe I didn't explain properly. My fault. As you know Additional Apps can be used to run stuff before the main app and also to end it if needed after the main app closes. They can also be used via the context menu to open stuff like images, docs, urls etc. And they can also be used to launch a different version of the main game. Maybe a cracked version or a pre-release one. When used to play a different version of the main game or the next disk of a multi-disk game, if the main game runs under emulation then you would enable this box to allow the version added as an Additional App to use emulation also.

At the moment you cannot display the File name or the Version field in BigBox. However, as these can be displayed in LaunchBox itself, it may be relatively easy for Jason to enable displaying them in BigBox too. Maybe it's on his to-do list or has a ticket for voting on.

If this box is ticked, then the Additional App will launch using the same Emulator as the main game uses. For example, you may have a game in LaunchBox that launches with ePSXe. This will allow the game set as an Additional App to launch with ePSXe too.